Managing Modernity: Work, Community, and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia

by Rudra Sil

In Managing "Modernity," Rudra Sil examines how institution-builders respond to the competing influences of institutional models and inherited social legacies as they attempt to generate and sustain authority in late-industrializing societies. Through a historical and comparative study of large-scale enterprises in Japan and Russia, the book examines the impact of different institution-building strategies on managerial authority, invoking the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472112228
• ISBN13: 9780472112227
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"